When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.

Later, holding Milo’s hand in the dark, Jacob felt that it was only in recovering it that he learned what he had been in danger of losing. The touch of Milo’s hand seemed to remind him of parts of himself that he had already begun to forget about.

When I see gay people holding hands or kissing in the streets, I just don't think that's right.

The hands on a clock move without regard to the hands you hold.

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.